http://xboxmedia.ign.com/xbox/image/oddie.jpg
Hmm... this looks like it might possibly be in-engine. Notice how the two creature's clothes are part of the overall texture, and how unsmooth the edges are. MO's CG characters were smooth as butter, and they always contribute polygons to clothing. It might just be an early CG movie, but it sure would be sweet if the graphics are that good. I doubt the backround is in-game though. :
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yes I saw those vykkers, but those seems less industrial and sadder
Are Vykkers in the next game? I dunno if it would be good or no |
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maybe thay will who knows? maybe steef is saving guys from them just like munch, but then again maybe they wont |
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I wouldn't want the design of Steef to change, he looks so damn cool at the moment. I know what you mean about those chicken things though they do look like something off a final fantsy game.
Did any of you notice that on the vid clip there are production pics of steef talking to a vykker, i think steef might be someone who hunts creatures for the vykkers to perform their experiments on! I can't wait for this game |
I can't either!!!! now all i need to do is get a Xbox
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I don't think its that bad. The two characters don't seem that bad. The two Birds look vaguely Mudokonish...what with the lil' pony-tail thing...
I think they're somewhat bad, well, working for bad people...or...something. But yeh, the hillbilly thing is vaguely un-original. I don't think they're going to be the creatures in need of rescuing though... People are saying he's like Crocodile Dundee, but in that webpage thing it mentions he's like one part Clint Eastwood, indicating he's more of a Cowboy-Western peep... |
what about the gamespeak....how would these things communicate?
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My theory is that Steef did something naughty to the Cartel and that's why Ugly was shooting at him in the vid clip. But he did look like someone from the Mag at on point of his life.
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Yeh the pic of the chicken has got to be in game, comapre it to the other pic ( Steef getting shot at ) which is CG.
If it is in game then they have definetly improved the game engine from Munch |
it would look better....but what about in game footage
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I know this is off topic but when did Farzad and paul o'conner leave??
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wow, I come back and these is all this talk over a new game. I know that Farzad left, but this is still a far cry from the oddities we're used to, SO FAR anyway. I support OWI in all their ventures, but this seems even more childish than the other games. Aside from being a bit disappointed, I'm excited about new information about OWI's next release. Oh, and Steef's hat is delightfully bizarre. oh yes, and am I the only one not able to play the video? |
I to, like Max and the others was rather disapointed when I saw the Bird-like Hillbillies. I did, however, like the Steef design and am wounder what new idea's OWI has in store for us. Aside from the chicken thing I have a great trust in OWI and hope that they somehow have given this thing alot of thought.
As I like to say "There is great potental in anything and everything, as long as you look for it" and who know's, this chicken thing just might turn out to be not half bad? Oh and Mr.Boji, if you have quicktime try coppying the quicktime address in the other post about the video (forgot its name) then go to the "file" bar then "open in new URL" or something and put in the URL. After that it should start downloading, but it'll be slo.:fuzwink: |
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You might get your chance. |
What is wrong with you guys? We see one picture of two chicken-like creatures, that don't look half bad and everybody is already jumping down OWI back. If you people are expecting the greatest, most original game ever, you may just be disapointed. What is going to happen when they release the next screens? As of now, we know one thing: the main character, nothing more. I recommend you guys wait until we get some real info, before you judge the game. Isn't gameplay the thing that matters anyway? Don't worry OWI will please the fans with this one.
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I agree with you totaly Mojo, but I've gotta admit that the chicken things don't look to appealing. Other than that I belive that OWI's next game will still be great even if it had the most awefull, horrible idea/charature/storyling/etc in it.
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I agree with mojoman. So far that's only 2 new species/characters confirmed. You should wait until you have tried the game, or at least gotten the complete story synopsis before you decided to turn your backs. Remember, this is only extremely limited pre-release publicity. We should be glad that OI has given us as much info as it has. At least the barrier of secrecy is starting to peel away at the edges, and we have at least a little idea of what to expect. Sorry if I sound rude, it just bothers me that some of us aren't being as appriciative of OI as we could be.
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KintoKid, in no way am I and the others not being appreciative. All I was doing was commenting on one of the images, aside from that everything looks great and I can't wait to see the final product.:fuzsmile:
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dunno if u guys have seen this or not ( i didn't really have the time to look through all the posts) but if U havn't theres stuff at gamespot.com also
sorry if this has already been posted, like I said I really didn't have time to go through all the posts to see if anyone had found it already. http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/adventu...tle/index.html |
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I cant believe I missed those when I went on Gamespot. Anyways heres another Concept art picture of the boat. A cool idea is maybe the character would use the boat like to travel to the different locals on oddworld along the path he must take to get to his ultimate goal. Similar to what I saw in another game before, where you have to use a boat to go to different areas. But the boat would be playable, and you would have to manuever, around enemies or fight, collect things,etc. Anyways just an early thought. Heres the image.
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images..._screen001.jpg |
Ooh! I missed a lot...
I have to admit that it doesn't look too 'oddworldish' to mefrom the pictures I've seen... throw in a few extra arms here and there, that would help... :fuzwink: But that doesn't bother me much. I'm just glad to see this stuff! :fuzgrin: |
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Stupid "have to pay us to see it" memberships.
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I really like those high res pictures it really brings the clearity. One thing though why the hell are we judgeing this game already? First of all everything looks absolutly amazeing. Those enviorments look pretty lush to me and looks to have a lot of Nooks and Cranys just like what the Oddworld enviorments are suppose to have. In a lot of ways it reminds me of Necrum. And second we don't even know any idea on what the story to this is and what these characters are like and what they are. We just seen pictures and small clips. Granted they look different but comeon lets see what Steef can do. Give it a chance ya know. Quite frankly I am sort of tired of Abe and Munch and sligs and the same Oddworld we have been seeing. I say give that portion of Oddworld a rest for a little bit and start with new things. Its about time we see something totaly different and original again with Oddworld. Especially quite possiably another continent.
Heck this game is suppose to be really epic in scale plus OWI wants when we are playing the game to feel more like being in a movie as oppose to a game. Granted the Chicken things look outragous but what did we say when we saw a Meep or a Fuzzle for the first time? So I love the pictures I can't wait for this game and I am not at least one bit of being upset for what I have seen thus far this is Oddworld 4 mann and it looks way better than Munch! I am giveing Steef a chance. Heres to Steef and the new game! |
Two new high-res images!
http://xboxmedia.ign.com/xbox/image/oddworld4c.jpg http://xboxmedia.ign.com/xbox/image/oddworld4a.jpg |
This is hilarious. All the pent up curiosity is spilling out over 3 images and a name. Jeebus, gotta give OWI credit- they know how to build a desire in the consumers. Yowza.
Anyway, that said, I'm as psyched as you guys. Damn, now I'm gonna lose more of my life to this forum. Oh well. A thought- the chicken guys have little mudokon ponytail jobbers. look at their skulls- very similar towards the top. Pull the beak back, skinny em up, bulge the eyes... and mudokons evolved from birds, did they? Hmm.... Remember the schpiel we got about how on a planet ten times the size of earth, things move at one tenth the speed? Maybe, on another continent, there are proto-mudokons, an earlier evolutionary form. And they're hillbilly livestock. So, (And bare with me here for a second) everybody's favorite floor-waxing messiah figure all the sudden has to deal with not only trigger-emotioned fellows who waffle back and forth in their loyalties, a lonely, whiney little amphibian whom he doesn't get along with all that well and commands ravenous pom-poms, a narcoleptic prune's half-assed clairvoyance, and a gaggle of weird looking, chain smoking, knive shining species who want to eat him, drain him, and mount his head on the wall... but NOW he's got redneck cousins who probably don't even believe in him, an enormous ocean to travel, and some particularly depraved looking lunatic in a crocadile dundee hat wafting through the swamps with a telepathic boat, a gun, and maybe a contract with flying purple scientists with three legs... AND YOU PEOPLE SAY THIS ISN'T ODD ENOUGH!??? Ooh, I'm ranting. yeah, this is gooooood stuff. |
Waahhoooaaaaah!
It's about time.
Steef looks interesting- Looks a bit more feral than Abe. Not so nieve. As for the chicken things- I didn't think Munch looked like much but he won me over. The swamp pic reminds me of necrum too but also makes me think of one of the concept pics of Abe riding elum along a large root or something. Maybe there'll be some forest levels too- I was ready to explore that lush forest in MO- maybe if OWI had more time, they might've did it. If Steef has a boat, there's potential to travel all over the place. I wouldn't mind him meeting Abe or Munch...though it sounds like those two are on hiatus. |
That new high-res photo looks a lot like the photo I posted earlier.(Just a lot prettier!) That guy on the tree is Steef, right?
Xavier said it was someone else. |
No I agrre with you on this, I simply said he wasn't the guy with the gun
anyway wow 4 new images... allready posted a news about on OWM thank you Mojo and chris! |
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Does S‚”‚…‚…‚* row the boat in this map on the river of what? |
I dunno there aren't much rivers on the map and they all look too big to be the same as on the picture
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Well MO did end at a river and at first I thought that Steef might be transporting the baby Gabbit egg's up the river to safty but then I heard that Abe and Munch would not be in it so now Im thinking that this story's about Steef traveling up river (he'll have some type of delema) while Abe and Munch are just finishing MO (remember its concurrent with the Quintology).
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More production art for all of you that haven't see the movie.
http://www.iespana.es/eyemagic2001/Steef1.JPG http://www.iespana.es/eyemagic2001/Steef2.JPG http://www.iespana.es/eyemagic2001/Steef3.JPG http://www.iespana.es/eyemagic2001/Steef4.JPG http://www.iespana.es/eyemagic2001/Steef6.JPG http://www.iespana.es/eyemagic2001/Steef7.JPG http://www.iespana.es/eyemagic2001/Steef9.JPG Enjoy it!!:fuzgrin: |
Wow in a lot of ways Steef looks mythical like in a fantasy. He looks like a Minataur and a Centaur all combined as one. But in the CG work I think he looks much better to fit something as an unlikely like Abe and Munch. In the CG he is obviously smaller than that. But cool pictures none the less.
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in side atusiya's discovery channel
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http://www6.plala.or.jp/atusiya/insider/inside.htm |
I think the drawings of Steef are quite thooper. Especially the third and fourth one. I hope thats the final version of him.
His way of doing things will probably be different and more violent...unless OWI wants us to think that and he's really, real polite and nice natured. I hope he doesn't wear that hat in the final version aswell, and if he does i hope you can take it off. I think the game should allow you to customise Steef at the beginning. His horns, colour etc. And then the FMV's all have different Steefs and the game differs depending on your look. I.e - Be all big and scawy then creatures will run away from you more, but you'll be stronger. Be all small and timid, creatures will pick on you more but you'll be more agile...etc I wonder what the FMV's are like with Steef in and i wonder what his bad ending is? And i wonder how many endings there will be for this game? I hope more than 4...and all differ accordingly and properly... |
Yeah I was wondering if they'll add RPG elements. I'd like to see mulitple story paths not just endings......
For example take out a mud pen and you get more native helpers later. But instead if you kill them all you could be hired by a gluk or something......... |
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The only thing I've complained about is the lack of originality in the visual designs, which, face it, is all we've seen. The boat as a concept works fine, but looking at it you could so easily just assume it's something straight from Earth. I've only been talking about the visual design, but for some reason everybody seems to be jumping at me from all directions with knives, ready to dissect and disgard not only what I've actually said, but, bizarrely, ideas that not only have I not aired but that I hadn't even considered. Unlike what a lot of you appear to be saying, I can't say 'Roll on Steef' or 'Steef will not disappoint', because like all of you, I don't know squat about the new game. I know it involves Steef, who seems to me to be a fine character, if not completely original on the design side (which I'm willing to live with - after all, Fleeches and Slurgs are hardly impressive creatures) and his telepathic/talking/sentient boat (people don't seem to be able to agree on which). This, as a concept is fine. I'm also fine and dandy with Steef straying somewhat from the Quintology's anti-hero stars, because let's face it, he's strong, fast and frightening. OWI obviously want to do something different, which I'm happy with - so stop shoving in my face as an excuse for the poor design, okay? Now, having seen some of the latest pictures, I can say, without having been influenced by your moaning, that I like a lot of it. That big gate, whatever it may be? The high-res image of the hunter? I think they're great. The rolling, almost balloon-like hills around the river give me the impression of Norwegian fjords, which seems closely linked to the Viking longship design of the boat. Wonderful. Not wholey original, but at least it's odd. My only gripes are with the chickens, the barns and the boat. However, what I have come to realise is the appauling blind faith so many of you seem to have. Maybe you're just not expresing your views very well, but it's very obvious to me that you're all defending OWI far too much. I'll say it again, you don't know squat about OW4, but you're willing to come back at me and complain about statements I haven't even made, so perhaps it's time you all just sat down and got things into perspective. Yes, it's great that we're finally getting 'news' about the new game - I was leaping about with joy, too, especially since Alf reported that we wouldn't get anything up to date within the next few months. But come off it, saying stuff like, "Don't worry OWI will please the fans with this one," is really disturbing. You don't know what OWI have got planned any more than I do. Sure, they've assured us that this will make up for MO, but then at the end of the day, they're the ones who are trying to sell this to us. Don't go on at me about how much OWI love their fans, because I simply don't want to hear it. I've seen a radical decline in the amount of respect fans have been getting from OWI - primarily their taking the piss out of us with the stupid Online Daily Deception. True they were about topics that shouldn't have seen the light of day, but if 'Alf' can't think of anyhing better to do than practically insult people who write in with stupid questions, then perhaps he should publish the decent intelligent questions, and reply with intelligent answers instead of "Ewww, have you seen Mudokon females, they are ugly!!" Now I've become somewhat sidetracked, but the point of all this is that if you're willing to just take whatever OWI gives us under the impression that you have to be completely whacked out on it, then you're not helping anyone. You're not helping OWI because they're going to think that what they're producing is fine and dandy. It's not helping us, because we're the ones that have to endure Oddworld poorness, should it come to that. I hope and doubt it will, but your blind faith is so upsetting. I want Oddworld to be the best it can, and I'm not going to cheer them on if they do bad. |